DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2018

2016

2004

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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